Terry Tate - Office Linebacker?

Hi Alyse!

I work for a retail company inside of a mall. We work at a kiosk with four stations and we each have our own
money bag. At the end of the day, we put the bags in the safe and lock the safe. We all have the code to the safe.
All four of us who work the stations have been there for over a year and we've never missed a dollar.
We have a new customer service rep who transferred in three weeks ago from another store and everyday, there seems to
be a small amount of money missing from at least one money bag on the day she opens the store. We had
a temp last week and he was missing money the one day he worked - she trained him that day. We each
have had to replace the money ourselves because the bags are supposed to be our responsibility. I haven't seen
her take the money so I can't accuse her but she always seems to be the one with the time and the access.
I don't know her motive but I know she's always complaining about not having any money. Even though she complains about money,
she goes to the local bar every night and the local club every weekend! I've considered putting a spider in my bag so it would
bite the thief when she puts her sticky hands in there but she'd probably turn around and sue me...(Sigh) I need help.

Trying to catch a thief Wilkes Barre, PA


Hey W-B!

What you need is Terry Tate, the office linebacker! LOL!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXzssFPV2WY&feature=related
Everytime she stands near the cash register or touches your bag (boom) - he's right there.


Seriously, someone has to lay down the law - first, report the fact that you are missing money, just one time
(if you seem to be consistently losing money, I know some company's will start looking at you).
Second, if you trust the other people in the booth each of you should take the time to be
the designated Office Linebacker, when she goes near someone's till or goes into the safe, one of you should be right there.
The days that you know she is supposed to open, whoever is scheduled to come in after her should come in early - BEFORE she opens the safe.
Maybe you should suggest to your company that all of you get new money bags with individual keys that each of you would carry separately.
On an evening when you close, assuming she is not closing with you, ask your manager to come in and watch you count your bag before you
place it in the safe, the next day (assuming she is opening) ask your manager to arrive with you to count your bag again. Even if there is no
money missing, she'll either get the message or slip up and get arrested - either way your problem should not go on for long.


A. Fox
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw